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Your juxtaposition of ethanol producers with those calling for energy independence is misleading.
What some politicians and activist groups espouse is a far cry from the reality on the ground and no one in the ethanol community is saying energy independence can be met with ethanol alone.
Ethanol and biofuels in particular, are but one important part of a total, overall solution to mitigate the liquid transportation fuel crisis that is Peak Oil.
Khosla and other proponnents such as myself who believe ethanol to be sound energy policy, have gone to great lengths to explain that corn ethanol is but one step in an ongoing drive to a more efficient and higher yielding production path.
And in the case of PHEVs, I have personally advocated the procession to Bio-PHEVs where R&D and investment monies for both technologies is warranted.
My apologies for applying too broad a brush. I meant to refer specifically to congressional policy making and funding decisions. Given the current political and fiscal environment, I doubt that their planning and funding horizons will extend much beyond the 2008 presidential election and that their thinking will be fairly shallow. Rather, I expect they will stop at the first solution appearing to fall within the boundaries of the calculus of the 2008 vote and corn-based ethanol fermentation appears to do that, irrespective of its EROEI or the potential of other solutions.
Yes, unfortunately that is one of the drawbacks of the US political system, however, there are some new elements in 07' that should affect the decision making process, namely, the transition to a Democrat run House and Senate.
Domesitc energy security is very much a non-partisan topic and coupled with a likely guest appearance in this year's State of the Union, the Dems will be also forced into substantiating their Energy Independence platform. Of course they will soon discover the reality of the situation at hand and thankfully there are dedicated people behind the scenes at NREL and similar US institutions like INL and PNWL who have the necessary expertise to show them what is actually doable.
Yes, unfortunately that is one of the drawbacks of the US political system, however, there are some new elements in 07' that should affect the decision making process, namely, the transition to a Democrat run House and Senate.
Domesitc energy security is very much a non-partisan topic and coupled with a likely guest appearance in this year's State of the Union, the Dems will be also forced into substantiating their Energy Independence platform. Of course they will soon discover the reality of the situation at hand and thankfully there are dedicated people behind the scenes at NREL and similar US institutions like INL and PNNL who have the necessary expertise to show them what is actually doable.